About

MachineMachine is the website of writer/artist and academic Daniel Rourke.

Bio
(Dr.) Daniel Rourke is from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and is currently based in London.

In his work Daniel creates collaborative frameworks and theoretical toolsets for exploring the intersections of digital materiality, the arts, and (critical) post-humanism. These frameworks often hinge on speculative elements taken from fiction and pop culture: figures and fabulations that might offer a glimpse of a radical ‘outside’ to the human(ities).

PhD
Daniel recently completed his PhD in Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. He will claim the ‘Doctor’ title just as soon as his minor corrections are complete (2018).

The PhD – entitled ‘Figures of Posthuman Becoming‘ – mobilises a series of speculative figures to investigate arenas under which the self-effacement and subsequent renewal of humanism as post-humanism is taking place. Is it possible to ‘write’ into / to ‘design’ radical futures, without limiting what might become?

#Additivism
In March 2015 artist & activist Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel released The 3D Additivist Manifesto: a call to push technologies beyond their breaking point, into the realm of the provocative and the weird. The project was the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research, Berlin. The resulting 3D Additivist Cookbook – composed of the work of over 100 artists, designers and theorists – was published as a free 3DPDF on December 2nd 2016. The 3D Additivist Manifesto and Cookbook are now considered as key critical resources in the teaching of 3D fabrication, speculative design, and digital culture in fablabs, universities, and art institutions around the world.